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Cake day: May 25th, 2023

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  • In Poland, we also had architects who designed such communities in 50’s or 60’s. Shops, drugstores, medical centers, playgrounds, recreation parks, sometimes much more, like kindergartens – all just downstairs. Mini-districts, almost self-sufficient. Maybe not everywhere, but I think this mindset was in all cities. Now we have something what Poles call “pato-developer” – extremely small apartments for high price, almost no shops so you need to sit at least an hour in a car to buy larger grocery. About 5 m^2 and 2-3 basic toys for kids to spend most of their time. And of course no recreation park, since CAR park is far more important. Today’s ideas about 15 min cities are noble, but just reinvention.









  • Forgive me if I trivialize, but we should not mourn too much: the obvious solution is to pirate it all. Do not waste time and energy for reinventing the wheel in the form of writing open source software. These resources can be used better for Revolution. Instead of diving into exhausting dispute and overintellectual arguments of Stallman, just do what said Marx: seize the means of production. That is, fucking pirate it. It is simple as that.